Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-09-28
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feminine neck.
OVER RIPE peaches don't pickle with
any satisfaction.
THE Fire Department of New York
has 1912 men in it's employ, two
floating engines or fire boats, 277
horses and 159, 5O3 feet of hose. The
cost of maintaining the department is
over 81. 100000 annually.
AYoUNG society man of Philadel.
phia, and q member of the National
Guard, has just sailed for Europe to
rejoin his mother, whom he left in
Paris while he came over here to at
tend the annual state encampment of
troops.
NICHOLAS LEMKE, of Pittsburg, says
that he was born in Poland in 1881,
and therefore is LOG years old. He
is almost blind, and has not tooth
in his head, but heis as straight as an
arrow and remarkably quick and Wig
orous.
MISS ALICE BOOKINGS, while at
work in shoe shop at Natick, Mass,
was caught up by shafting, completely
tearing away her hair and scalp and
her right ear. When she fell she ex-
claimed: ooh, dear, won't look ter
rible!"
AT the grounds of the Texas State
Fair at Dallas there is exhibited q
freak of nature, it being a bullock with
the hind half of q calf grown out Of it's
right shoulder. The muscular action
OF the calf seems to be independent of
the bullock.
LINCOLN, Neb., has q haunted house
that is causing considerable excite
ment among the credulous Of the
town. The ghost is described as q fe-
male, with blonde hair, and the ability
to pass through closed doors and
vanish into the air.
A LUDICRoUs printers error appears
in Berlin paper. A venison mer-
chant advertised "abgezogene hasen"
(skinned hares), but was staggered
when he saw that the printer made
him sell "abgezogene hosen," that is,
taking off inexpressibles.
DIR. Snow, of Danbury, Conn, has q
cat and parrot that are firm friends.
The parrot escaped from the cage and
flew out of the window, when the cat
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the Doctors return from q call made
plain to him by her actions what had
happened.
PEOPLE ia grape-raising countries
eat grapes without chewing, skinningsOr
seeding. The most agreeable way to
eat the fruit is to bolt it as fast as it
can be swallowed comfortably, press
ing the grape between the teeth SO as
to open up the bulb enough to give
the flavor.
THE result of Investigations made
by the English labor bureau shows
that Worklngmen in many trades con-
tribute to their unions about 3 per
cent. of their wages. They actually
save much more than many men who
are constantly preaching "thrift'' to
the laboring class.
WHEN Farmer E. D. Highly, of
Tocsin, ILL.,, went to his we'll to draw
q pail of water the other morning he
found where the water had been moth
ing but g. black hole, which up to date
has been unfathomed. This is one of
the Instances on record of the bottom
dropping out OF a well.
In Salem, Ill.,, flock of $50 sheep
were evertaken in their pasture by
fire. They at once made for knoll
in the field, and there punched them
selves, with the lambs in the middle,
and began moving in q circle, treading
the weeds and grass into the dry
earth until the fire was out.
IT is given out, says the Cleveland
Plain Dealer, that Cleveland coal
dealers have notified Pittsburg op-
orators to ship no more coal here for
q while. The purpose of that, no
doubt, Is to create an artificial scare
1ty to serve as an excuse for eXtOrt1ng
higher prices from consumers.
A CHESTER, N. Y, dog, whose mas
ter comes home on Saturday nights
only, knows the hour of his expected
arrival and goes regularly, alone,
without hint or suggestion from any
one, to meet him at the creek: a mile
away. How he knows it is q mystery,
but he never makes a. mistake.
In breaking the ground in place
near Kincard1ne, Ont, the other day,
q skeleton, which to all appearances
is that of wild boar, was found. All
the bones including the tusks and
teeth were found in splendid condi-
ton, though it is thought they have
been lying there LOO Or 2OOyears.
A 9-YEAR-oLD child in Bayside, N.
J., while playing in the street was
swept from her feet by the torrent
pouring down g. gutter after rain
storm, carried for thirty feet through
a 24-inch pipe under the Jersey Gen.
trail tracks, but rescued as she was
being carried into the tidewater
creek.
Four kittens in q litter recently
born at Narragansett Hotel IL New
London were bound together like the
Siamese twins by ligature at the ab-
domen. The cords were in theform OF
two triangles joined at the apex, the
four ends connecting the kittens, with
a space of an inch and a. half between.
The kittens died.
ONE of the unique contributions to
the convention of the Society OF
American Florists is an armchair